Review of Sliding Doors (1998) by Tatsuhito K — 04 Jul 2015

Not one to watch when you've had a drink as I knew 15 mins into this that it was going to be a thinking film. The movie basically revolves around the life that a woman leads when she is sacked and gets home early to find her husband in bed with another woman, but also what would have happened if she missed her tube train and didn't make it back to catch them in the act.

The scenes then continually cut from one scenario to the next, with it sometimes being difficult to remember which turn of events this was following. It's very imaginative and pieced together well as the scenes often interact with one another and show how the friends that she would gave met in one trail of events would have also lived their lives through the other.

It has the potential for us get completely lost within, and only when she has a distinctive new haircut does it make it easier to comprehend. I like this movie in the sense that it is deep and meaningful, and goes to show how the decisions and actions we take help map out our life ahead.

I had assumed that the real message from this was one which would suggest that no matter which path we choose, we always end up getting from A to B with the same outcome, just through a different set of paths.

However, to my surprise, this wasn't the case, when the ending came up with two very opposing alternatives. Always nice to be surprised but I feel my conclusion would gave actually been more apt. It's a clever movie, which is acted well, through relatively normal and plain individuals, but I'm not sure this is really action packed enough for me to fall in love with it.

I've seen it, I've appreciated it, and I'll now put it back on the shelf for someone else to enjoy. I imagine the spiritual or sentimental amongst us will really live by this sort of concept, but as for me, I just like to live one day at a time, live for the moment, attribute nothing to fate, and deal with the consequences once I encounter them.